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Hucks doggedly, "she's there if she's alive. You go back and try." Miss Sally considered for a full minute for two minutes, Mr. Hucks watching her face from under his shaggy eyebrows. "It is barely possible," she owned at length. "But supposing they have reached Holmness, it can only be to starve. Good Lord! they may be starving to death there at this moment!" Mr. Hucks kept his composure.
" Allowin' there's a plot, if 'tis worth folks' while to get hold o' the child, 'tis worth your while to get him back from 'em. But are you sure there's a plot? There it don't seem to me you've made out your case." Mr. Hucks said it thoughtfully, but his mind was not working with his speech.
Hucks shortly, as they helped the dazed children to alight. "And if there's any difficulty, send the manager to me. He'll find me in the telegraph office." She consulted a prospectus of the Holy Innocents, extorted from Mrs. Huggins. "I shall be there for an hour at least. There are two dozen patrons on this list besides a score of executive committee, and I'm going bless you, Mr.
It will be time enough tomorrow to get a new buggy wheel, and the broken surrey won't be in anybody's way until we send for it." If Old Hucks thought they had all gone crazy that day he was seemingly justified in the suspicion, for his master left the baskets of good things to be consumed by himself and Nora and started to walk to the farm, the Major and Louise accompanying him.
"True's gospil," said Old Hucks. "To know my Nora is to love her. Ev'body loves Nora. An' the good Lord He's took'n care o' us so long, it seems like a sort o' sacrelidge to feel that all thet pretty furn'ture in the barn spells on'y poor-house to us. Eh, Ethel?"
Somehow that did not seem to explain fully the old man's behavior, and the girl who had championed him sighed and then gave a sudden shiver as she remembered the awful suspicion that had fallen upon this strange individual. If the proof must be accepted that Hucks had miserly instincts, had not Beth accidentally stumbled upon a solution of the whole mystery? But Patsy would not believe it.
"If it 'adn't been for them children " blurted Sam, and came to a full stop. Miss Sally nodded. "They are wonders, those Babes in the Wood; and the funniest thing about 'em is, while they went along asking their way, they were all the time teaching it to others." "Well," struck in Mr. Hucks, while Sam scratched his head over this, "I suggest the conspiracy may just as well get going at once.
"It began with pop to pop something Shakespeare in places where they 'adn't 'eard of 'im. But you know 'is way." Mr. Hucks arose, visibly pondering. 'Dolph, who had been keeping an eye on him, rose also, and 'Dolph's tail worked as if attached to a steam engine. "There's a cargo, mostly beer, to be fetched up from Stratford," said Mr. Hucks after a pause.
"They're here, sir," said Old Hucks, who had watched each one with his persistent smile and now stood awaiting his new master's commands. "But we didn't know jest where ye wanted 'em put." Mary came out. She had taken off her things and donned her white apron. "The house is quite wonderful, Mr. Merrick," she said. "There is everything we can possibly need, and all as neat as wax."
Old Hucks, still smiling, but dreadfully nervous over the discovery of Joe, and Mr. Merrick's sudden activity in the boy's behalf, speedily harnessed Daniel and induced the reluctant steed to amble down the path to the cabin. Leaning on Uncle John's arm, the invalid walked to the buggy and was assisted to mount to the seat beside Thomas.
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